gloomy - Story 54880 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The city, usually vibrant and alive, felt like a desolate wasteland. Daniel stared at the digital billboard, the giant screen looming over him, a monument to his despair. His digital art, the hours of labor he put in, were flashing before him. But now, it was a backdrop for a series of advertisements he had nothing to do with. He felt like he had been erased from his own work, his contribution, his identity, rendered invisible.

He felt his shoulders slump.

He turned away and walked, feeling lost in the overwhelming crowd.

Emotion: gloomy

Cluster: Sadness / Despair

PC1 (Valence): -1.68 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -1.37

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion gloomy. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 gloomy stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the gloomy emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the gloomy vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`😞`	0.368
`无法`	0.319
`😔`	0.300
`いつも`	0.270
`쓸`	0.255

Suppressed:

`la`	-0.432
`l`	-0.419
`de`	-0.398
`B`	-0.294
`!`	-0.259